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Cheap Flights from Albany to San José (ALB-SJO)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Albany to San José that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent round-trip flight deals from Albany to San José

Tue, Mar 10 - Wed, Mar 11
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6:00 am - 11:55 amALB-SJO
7h 55m1 stop
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9:00 am - 10:40 pmSJO-ALB
11h 40m1 stop
$252JetBlue
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Wed, Dec 31 - Wed, Jan 14
American Airlines Logo
5:19 pm - 10:32 amALB-SJO
18h 13m2 stops
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8:00 am - 11:57 pmSJO-ALB
14h 57m2 stops
$256American Airlines
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Wed, Dec 10 - Mon, Dec 15
American Airlines Logo
6:35 pm - 12:13 pmALB-SJO
18h 38m2 stops
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6:00 am - 11:57 pmSJO-ALB
16h 57m1 stop
$259American Airlines
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Thu, Nov 6 - Sun, Nov 9
American Airlines Logo
6:01 am - 10:56 pmALB-SJO
17h 55m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 11:58 pmSJO-ALB
16h 58m1 stop
$260American Airlines
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Wed, Dec 10 - Mon, Dec 15
American Airlines Logo
6:35 pm - 12:13 pmALB-SJO
18h 38m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
12:56 pm - 1:01 pmSJO-ALB
23h 05m1 stop
$263American Airlines
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Thu, Nov 27 - Sat, Dec 6
American Airlines Logo
6:01 am - 12:11 pmALB-SJO
31h 10m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 11:40 pmSJO-ALB
15h 40m1 stop
$269American Airlines
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Tue, Mar 10 - Wed, Mar 11
JetBlue Logo
6:00 am - 11:55 amALB-SJO
7h 55m1 stop
JetBlue Logo
12:55 pm - 11:40 pmSJO-ALB
8h 45m1 stop
$289JetBlue
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Wed, Dec 31 - Mon, Jan 12
United Airlines Logo
6:13 pm - 12:56 pmALB-SJO
19h 43m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
2:05 pm - 2:31 pmSJO-ALB
23h 26m1 stop
$369United Airlines
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Mon, Oct 27 - Tue, Nov 11
United Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 6:53 pmALB-SJO
14h 53m2 stops
United Airlines Logo
8:45 am - 11:43 pmSJO-ALB
13h 58m2 stops
$373United Airlines
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Fri, Nov 28 - Tue, Dec 2
Southwest Logo
6:10 am - 1:15 pmALB-SJO
8h 05m1 stop
Southwest Logo
9:00 am - 8:50 pmSJO-ALB
10h 50m2 stops
$474Southwest
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Cheapest • from $252 (round-trip)
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When to book
3 weeks
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Our data shows that travelers who book at least 3 weeks in advance save around 21% compared to booking last minute.
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September
Cheapest • 32% price drop
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Cheapest round-trip
$252
Typical prices: $515-$718
JetBlue
Tue 3/10Wed 3/11
ALB - SJO • 1 stop
Cheapest one-way
$110
Typical prices: $285-$341
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Sat 10/25
ALB - SJO • 2 stops
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Albany to San José flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Albany to San José to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

How much is a round-trip flight from Albany, New York to San José?

This analysis is based on the cheapest round-trip price found on KAYAK in the last 12 months by searching for a flight from Albany, New York to San José departing in March.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Albany to San José?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Albany to San José clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

For Albany to San José, Monday is the cheapest day to fly on average and Friday is the most expensive. Flying from San José back to Albany, the best deals are generally found on Sunday, with Saturday being the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Albany to San José?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Albany to San José, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Albany to San José is September, where tickets cost $435 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and February, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $1,006 and $813 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Albany to San José?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Albany to San José, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Albany to San José, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 21% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 9 weeks before departure.

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Low seasonOctober
Cheapest flight$110
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 26% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 13% lower on average.
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Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Albany to San José based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking flights from Albany to San José

  • What is the cheapest flight from Albany to San José?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Albany to San José was $110 for a one-way ticket and $252 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Albany and San José?

    A passport is required to fly from Albany to San José.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Albany to San José?

    When flying out of Albany you will be using Albany Intl. You will be landing at San José, also known as San José Juan Santamaria Intl.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Albany to San José?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Albany to San José?

    Star Alliance, SkyTeam, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between Albany and San José, with Star Alliance being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Albany to San José, Southwest or Delta?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Albany to San José are Southwest and Delta. With an average price for the route of $693 and an overall rating of 8.0, Southwest is the most popular choice. Delta is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $646 and an overall rating of 7.9.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Albany to San José?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Albany to San José.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Albany to San José?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to San José from Albany is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Albany to San José?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to San José with an airline and back to Albany with another airline. Booking your flights between Albany and SJO can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Albany to San José?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to San José from Albany up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Albany to San José

 
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SouthwestOverall score based on 4241 reviews
8.6Crew
7.5Entertainment
8.0Comfort
7.0Food
8.1Boarding
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Boarded on time but once we were ready for take off, the crew determined that, although every seat was taken, somehow someone was on the wrong flight. Delay, delay delay, announcements and ended up with one person checking EVERY ID against their passenger Manifest only to figure out it was a "clerical error." We departed 54 minutes late causing me to run in the St. Louis Airport to make my connection and lose the priority boarding spot I had paid for. Unnecessary delay.

2.0 MediocreThomas, Oct 2025SAT - STL
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Boarded on time but once we were ready for take off, the crew determined that, although every seat was taken, somehow someone was on the wrong flight. Delay, delay delay, announcements and ended up with one person checking EVERY ID against their passenger Manifest only to figure out it was a "clerical error." We departed 54 minutes late causing me to run in the St. Louis Airport to make my connection and lose the priority boarding spot I had paid for. Unnecessary delay.

I was re-booked onto another flight because my original flight was delayed and I would have missed my connector. I ended up in the “C” group after paying extra to be in the “A “ group on the original flight. At least if you’re going to re-book people, re-book them into the same group.

Flight was delayed due to plane not passing inspection And one of the crew had to time out and we had to wait for another one A 3 hour delay

mandatory demand customer to check their carry on because not enough people check bags.

Connecting flight is on time and boarding was a breeze!

Excellent. Would encourage Southwest to keep current boarding procedures with free style seating. Makes for a fantastic experience

As always, the entire Southwest experience was perfect. Purchasing the tickets on the Southwest web site was effortless, departure and arrival gates were spotless and comfortable, plane was clean and comfortable, crew was excellent and flight was on time. Wheelchair service in Las Vegas at departure was somewhat chaotic and disjointed, but I am not sure if that was Southwest problem, airport problem or combination.

I wish they had movie screens in the headrests. The seats are much improved, more legroom and recently renovated. Bathroom was clean. Staff was outstanding!!

As always, the entire Southwest experience was wonderful, from online booking to flight to baggage retrieval. Very grateful.

The weather could have been better. There was a 40 minute ATC delay in SFO because of marine fog and a micro cell storm delayed landing and take-off at Nashville. The gate was changed 5 minutes from boarding from gate B3 to gate C23 at Nashville airport.

The flight was great. The gate location was way to far away!!!

This route with Delta always has delays or is cancelled. Aircrafts seem smaller and older. I fly Delta quite a bit - haven’t had issues with the international flights. But this route has always been the troublesome one

Three seats in first class were broken and while they were able to still acommodate us it was looking very touch and go and they had others they could not acommodate

I believe that a four-hour trip should have a meal. Delta had none.

Was charged for my luggage despite having been on one ticket from an international flight. Too tired to argue after 15 hours on flight. Was charged for rechecking it at JFK airport. Not sure why those off Kenya Airways were required to do that.

My experience on any Delta flight is always overshadowed by the time Delta removed me from a flight for no apparent reason.

Flight was canceled, and no effort was made to help with rebooking, no hotel vouchers, no car transportation and minimal food voucher and most places for food were closed by the time the voucher was given. Waited for 3 hours for bags. Simply the worst travel experience I have ever had

At first, we were on the runway for about an hour, literally. The Captain did explain that the Control Tower just had a change shift (sounds like an unrealistic excuse) and then that we had to change a runway. A regular economy seat is made for 12 yo twiggy. I understand Delta wants to push for an upgrade, but after sitting in a Comfort seat and in First class. I would say First class is not worthy of my money. The landing was delayed because of the weather in NYC, I don't hold that against Delta, of course. The Captain did alert us to that upon takeoff in Vegas and again as we reached NY.

Not a "Delta" issue, but a JFK issue: We booked a connecting flight with 3 1/2 hours between to clearn immigration and customs. Our inbound flight (BCN to JFK) was on the taxiway 45 minutes which ate into our layover time. Immigtration was insanely quick with the CBP MPC app; however, clearing TSA (again, after we were ALREADY cleared in Spain on the inbound international flight) took over 95 minutes. This left us with 10 minutes before boarding the connecting flight (JFK to SAN) to walk to the far end of Terminal 4 and try to find food. We didn't find any food that could promise to serve us in under 10 minutes so we boarded the Delta flight after coming off a plance and an 8-hour flight knowing that we wouldn't be served any food on the next 5 1/2 hour flight. I feel like Delta needs to put pressure on the JFK TSA to open more screening stations (by our count, we saw only 5 scanners open and a line of - as we said - over 90 minutes. The insult is that we WERE ALREADY SCREENED through TSA, but as you come off one flight into the USA, you have to go through the whole process again. It seems like if you have a connecting flight, there should be a way to pass through immigration and customs without needing to return through TSA.

Overall, aside from the baggage issue, it was as good as one expects.

My husband and I recently had an unfortunate experience with Lufthansa. At the Philadelphia International airport, the ground staff refused to board us because we didn’t have a current visa stamped on our passports for Frankfurt. We completely understand that this was our mistake. we should have double-checked the visa requirements before our trip. However, the issue that upset us most was how the situation was handled by the staff. They told us they would mark it as “boarding denied due to visa issue”, but instead they recorded it as “no show”. Because of that incorrect entry, our return flight was automatically cancelled as well, which caused additional stress and expense. Mistakes can happen, but we expected more transparency and accuracy from a reputed airline like Lufthansa. It would have made a big difference if the staff had been more careful and considerate in documenting the situation correctly.

Flight was good but there are way to many announcements for credit cards etc.

During booking, I kept trying submitting my payment from the Mexican website and it didn't work. After I had the idea to change it to the Canadian website, it worked but I had to be charged the equivalent of 50 CAD more. I received the clear instruction that I would only be able to check-in at the airport and that it was impossible to select a seat 24 hours before departure, that I had to pay 144 CAD to do so, although not only was I able to check-in 24 hours before departure, but I could have selected my seats for free then. All in all, I almost threw $200 out the window due to misleading information. Besides, the app kept crashing, the information to get to the gate on the app was inaccurate, my gate was switched and I was only informed once in the air (luckily I had noticed the departure pannel), I was not addressed in my language beforehand and even if I tried I was immediately answered in English (which meant the crew understood but didn't want to answer accordingly), there was only one snack & beverage service on my medium haul flight and no beverage service on my short haul flight. To be fair, the planes were comfortable, the crew apart from the language issue was helpful, dynamic and engaging, the plane was clean and the directions were clear and direct. United has a lot of potential to be one of my favourite airlines, but the devil is in the details and a lot of them missed the target.

Flight was timely, relatively comfortable, with decent entertainment and food served. Only problem encountered was with the free messaging which I highly appreciate, but it did not work from iphone to non-iphones.

Better WiFi. I cannot understand that in 2025, United is so behind on a technology that is now a necessity and still painfully unreliable, slow and keeps disconnecting.

The entertainment available didn’t work for anyone on the flight. Long 6 hr flight with no entertainment option and the staff didn’t know until an hour into the flight when we made sure they knew about it. They had no way to fix it.

Crew seemed a bit cranky. No seatback screens. But boarding was efficient and on time and we arrived early.

The worst landing I have ever had on a domestic flight. Thought we would lose the landing gear on landing in Newark. Then we spent 40 minutes trying to position the plane in the right place to be able to get the jet way to the plane. The plane arrived stopped. The announcer was that we were there. Everybody got up, then we were told to sit back down because they had to have us towed to a different position. We got towed and then everyone stood up and they told us we were in the wrong position to sit back down again, and then we got towed to a different position This did not happen immediately. It was 30 minutes while we wandered around a small section of the tarmac in Newark close to the gate, but apparently not close enough. Horrifying experience The CAB should be investigating that flight

Food was poorly timed and not good.. Hand held snacks, really. I kept asking for water and never got any. Service was rushed for a 7-hour flight.

Boarding was organized. Old plane. Seat fairly comfortable. Business Class much too large so you don’t receive as much attention as you should considering what you pay for the seat.

Food should be better quality. Video screens have poor resolution and the library of movies is poor. The other airlines are much better.

They only offered water for Group 6. Awful announcements from the Crew. Couldn't understand a single word. Barely came by for the trash afterwards. Man, I love water for a premium flight. Wow. Water in a cup.

Great. Quick and quiet and east. The breakfast choices were a welcome surprise!

We arrived 4 hours early and still almost missed the flight because they weren’t able to access one of the boarding tickets. They then sent hour bags late and we were all of our without clothing and eventually had to take an expensive cab back and forth to the airport as they wouldn’t deliver the bag which arrived late at night that day and we would have to wait until noon the began day (messing up a second day of plans). Also, all the food has dairy or pork. No vegan or even vegetarian option in the flight—even for purchase.

The comfort of the seats was great, the crew eased my child’s anxieties and the fact that I had full cans of my beverage choice was great.

Pathetic check in experience at JFK. Everything is self check in. Not enough staff present to help with when the check in process or the kiosk gets stuck. Staff present not welcoming or pleasant at all. On the other hand the NY based flight crew was great. Courteous and friendly throughout the flight. Special meals leave a lot to be desired. Kids meals should be made available when kids are flying and same goes for special kids meals too.

Waited on the runway for takeoff for 2.5 hours. Air traffic rerouted us. The plane didn't have enough fuel, so had to go back to the gate. Had to wait for a new pilot. Should have landed at 5:22. Didn't land until 9:10. Trash flight.

There were five broken seats on the plane. The crew was very rude in telling people they had to get off the plane and get a flight the next day. No call for volunteers, but telling people they had to get off. One woman was flying with her elderly mother and daughter and was told she had to leave or all three had to leave. Fortunately, a volunteer offered to stay. The situation was handled poorly.

Delays on all NY flights. There was no communication on why but they didn’t say it was weather. Other carriers were not delayed.

Extraordinary service in business class, and very good breakfast and snacks. A really lovely flight.

Plane was in bad shape. TV’s and WiFi didn’t work. Plane need a refresh. Not enough room for bags.

Everything was great. I liked the text updates so that I never miss a gate change & I have all the latest info.

No internet on a flight over three hours in this age is criminal. Staff inattentive and dismissive

Worst flight experience ever flights canceled. JetBlue told us just did not even bother standing in line to come back in one and a half hours then without any information we had to go pick up all of our luggage and spend over $2000 in accommodation just to get home. JetBlue said that the next flight available for us to get home would be three days later. Absolutely absurd hasn’t offered to give us any compensation do not fly JetBlue horrible company. They said it was based on the weather and the weather is great in all locations that we would’ve been flying to total hoax. I think it’s a conspiracy theory.

flight was delayed for hours with no explanation. The plane was a very old aircraft.

Communication since no reason or explanation was given for 3 hrs delay

The flight departed more than 1 hour late. Leg room is bigger than most airlines

Excellent. Although they used to greet me as a mosaic member and provide a free drink, early boarding helps me to keep coming back to JetBlue.

No music app working: no economy meal on five hour flight; hour on tarmac at the end waiting for a gate. Flight itself was smooth and easy.

Communication with the customer and stay is important. Staff off with a minor inconvenience but it worked out of course. Also this was a very old Mint Class plane. They snuck this one in on us. The updated aircraft are much better.

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